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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Memphis, TN

April 9, 2024Monroe County, Mississippi

NWS Memphis, TN issued this river flood warning at Apr 9, 2024, 10:27 PM CDT for Monroe County, Mississippi. It took effect at Apr 10, 2024, 11:35 AM CDT. It was in force for 20 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 9, 2024, 10:27 PM CDT (03:27 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 10, 2024, 11:35 AM CDT
Expired: Apr 30, 2024, 10:27 PM CDT
In force: 20 days
Issued by: NWS Memphis, TN
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: Minor

County Monroe County, MS

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tombigbee River at Bigbee (BGBM6). The gauge peaked at 17.09 ft at Apr 11, 2024, 1:00 AM CDT.

Action stage: 13 ft
Minor stage: 14 ft
Moderate stage: 23 ft
Major stage: 26 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 02433500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Memphis, TN wrote its last area forecast discussion before this river flood warning went out at Apr 9, 10:04 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 9, 10:04 PM CDT, 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 9, 4:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 38 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Memphis, TN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 2:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Shelby	41 min
Apr 10, 2:45 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	MEG	Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer and 15 more	26 hr
Apr 9, 10:39 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Calhoun	44 hr
Apr 10, 12:29 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	3 hr
Apr 10, 7:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	9 hr
Apr 10, 7:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MEG	Calhoun, Chickasaw, Lee, Monroe, Pontotoc	3 hr
Apr 10, 12:36 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lafayette, Marshall, Union	29 hr
Apr 10, 12:37 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MEG	Lee	6 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Mississippi, 2024 Every river flood warning in 2024

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.